An ongoing parenting education and support group for single parent families in crisis. Parents with court involved youth are especially encouraged to attend.

Target Audience:

• Parents with court involved youth
• New single parents
• Single parents in alcohol/drug recovery
• Single Parents with youth involved in negative behaviors
• Single Parents
• Foster/Adoptive Parents
• Teen Parents
• Grandparents raising grandchildren as single parents
• Grandparents raising grandchildren in a two - parent household
• Court Referred Parents
• Any Parent

Every family, whether a single or two parent family, deals with stress at one time or another. However, when stress gets out of control, it becomes distress and family life gets harder to handle. When problems within the family become overwhelming or when a parent begins to feel so stressed that they feel unable to parent properly, that family is in a state of crisis. The upside to a family crisis is that usually the family is so desperate for things to get better that during a crisis is a time they are most open to change. That is where SingleParent911 comes in.

SingleParent911 helps parents deal with the event that triggered the crisis as well as the emotions that accompany it. The focus of this program is that every family experiences crisis; it is the way they deal with them that determines their success or struggle.

Children learn about life from their parents and other adults. Therefore, how parents deal with the crisis affects how their children handle crisis in their own lives. By equipping parents to proactively work through their crisis, children will learn that skill as well.

Parents participating in this program develop techniques that promote more effective and active parenting styles, increased coping skills and family resiliency development. These are key elements in the recovery process for families looking to bounce back from a trauma. This program provides parents with the necessary tools to instill positive character traits in their children to prevent further incidents.

Parents in crisis sometimes react negatively by parenting harder. Instead of providing leadership and guidance, they begin focusing on implementing controlling measures designed to control their child’s negative behavior. This usually backfires and can often increase stress levels in an already tense situation.

SingleParent911 equips parents to instead parent smarter.

SingleParent911 fosters the belief that with some help, families can often come out of a crisis with greater knowledge, increased strength and in a better position than before the crisis.